# Daniel Waltrip

> Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

Location: Oakland, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/danielwaltrip

Hey! I solve problems, often by building rock solid web apps. I love exploring and understanding new domains. A few of my key values are pragmatism, curiosity, empathy, and honesty. Let’s make something great together.

## Work Experience
### Senior Full Stack Software Engineer @ ABL Space Systems
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | El Segundo, California, United States
• Brought on as the 1st software hire and 3rd employee
• Led development and implementation of SIA, a foundational system for company operations, using React + Flask
• Worked directly with founders, dept. heads, and users across company to refine the vision and direction for SIA, handling design (UI/UX) and project management
• Built a team of 3 engineers from scratch to evolve SIA in support of the company’s rapid progress
• Scaled system to track over $2M in inventory and power thousands of manufacturing builds and test procedures
• Played a vital role in establishing core capabilities of manufacturing, rocket design iteration, and process control

### Full Stack Software Engineer @ AltSchool
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Created the frontend of the mobile web app for parents. Features included drop-off / pick-up scheduling, student updates, general parent-teacher communication, classroom calendars, and event details
• Worked across AltSchool's product suite and stack, primarily using Ember.js and Django
• Executed a major platform-wide refactor to fix core data models

### Quantitative Research Analyst @ Acumen LLC
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013
• Analyzed multi-terabyte Medicare datasets to investigate policy impacts and epidemiology questions
• Compiled analyses into reports for clients and presented the results in bi-weekly calls
• Promoted good data eng. practices by building standardized way of interacting with a key Medicare dataset

### Applied Math Researcher @ UCLA Applied Math REU
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
• Implemented image segmentation algorithms in Matlab and C++ and presented findings


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computational Mathematics
UCLA
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/danielwaltrip
- GitHub: https://github.com/dwaltrip

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Last updated: 2026-03-20